How to be Good

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How to be Good is a novel by English writer Nick Hornby. It centers on the characters of Katie Carr and her husband, David Grant, and the events that unfold when David stops being "The Angriest Man In Holloway" and begins to be "good", with his spiritual healer, DJ Goodnews.

The duo go about this by nominally convincing people to give their spare bedrooms to the homeless, but as their next scheme comes around, "reversal" (being good to people one has been not good to in the past), this proves to be fruitless and thus David gives up his strivings and his plans for a book on how to be good, appropriately named "How to be Good".

The novel has a funny side, mostly due to the conversion of the husband, David, from an angry, cynical and negative man to a "do-gooder". Nevertheless, its most important and quite depressive subject is the crisis that the couple is going through.

Katie is a doctor, allowing Hornby to make humorous comments about said profession.